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Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosæ luis, quæ pestis dicitur. : Quo origo, causæ, signa, prognostica pestis, nec non insolentes malignantis naturæ effectus, qui statis temporibus, cælestium influxuum virtute & efficacia, tum in elementis, tum in epidemijs hominum animantiumque morbis elucescunt, vnà cum appropriatis remediorum antidotis noua doctrinâ in lucem eruuntur. Ad. .

by: Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680

Publication date: 1658

Topics: Plague, Medicine

Publisher: Romæ : typis Mascardi

Collection: jcbgerman; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Latin

Text is first treatise to "state explicitly the theory of contagion by animalculae as the cause of infectious diseases"--Garrison-Morton

Signatures: [Fourchée cross]-2[Fourchée cross]⁴ A-2I⁴ 2K⁶ (2K6 verso blank)

Coat of arms of Pope Alexander VII on verso of title page

Errata (p. [23], 3rd count)

Includes index

JCB Lib. cat., additions 1471-1700

Backer-Sommervogel

Garrison-Morton (4th ed.)

Alden, J.E. European Americana

John Carter Brown Library copy bound, in contemporary vellum, with: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Itinerarium exstaticum. Rome, 1656-1657